Don't Just Read the News, Understand It.
Published loading...Updated

The Constitution State - Futility Closet

Summary by Futility Closet
What do you call a person from Connecticut? Today we’d call them a Connecticuter or a Connecticutian (or, colloquially, a Nutmegger), but in a 1987 address etymologist Allen Walker Read announced that he’d also found these options: Connecticotian, used in 1702 by Cotton Mather Connecticutensian, used in 1781 by historian Samuel Peters Connectican, used in 1942 in a letter to the Baltimore Evening Sun Connecticutan, used in 1946 by book reviewer…
DisclaimerThis story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.

Bias Distribution

  • There is no tracked Bias information for the sources covering this story.
Factuality

To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium

Ownership

To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage

Futility Closet broke the news in on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
Sources are mostly out of (0)